skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In order to rent a property I needed a Belgian bank account,

This part is proper weird and (very) likely not complaint with the EU directives. All Eurozone banks must be treated the same. Since you appear to be British, that would preclude the Eurozone. Still all banks in the UK were allowed to transact in Euro although there was a spat where the guys in Brussels wanted to exclude London from the juice EU clearance.

Many years back (not in Belgium) I did get a bank account prior to obtaining the local residency. Moving to work within the EU has been absolutely hassle free for me. Again, I have not worked in Belgium.
Politics, mēh!

The divergence of the Democrats and Republicans is twenty first century.

They were not identical back in the day, but they were broadly the same pro business pro money machines.

Not unusual, happens in most parts of the world.
More they are trying to intimidate rival gangs, or extort protection money.
At the bigcorp where I work, I don't see cover letters. Applications comes through some crappy platform, I just see resume files and autog-extracted versions of them.

Might be worth putting a little summary / objective in the resume file itself because of that.
This is true.

I didn’t argue with them, but kept using it on my personal kit.

I think it’s less useful, these days, as Apple is really battening down their I/O hatches. I know that Charles Proxy can miss stuff.
His words were debating the claim above:

"the relatively simple process of moving between countries."

But I wonder, how long ago that was?
>making sure I have the skills and experience

A great way to test this is to wait for the email inviting you to an interview.

The emotional rollercoaster of selling yourself on a company only for it not to work out hurts too much. It's also a cost borne only by the applicant. It's easy to want to kick that can down the road until you're sure that you have a shot where some part, at least, is within your own control.

It will never be entirely down to your own performance and actions. Lots of job descriptions out there are for roles without a budget, or at companies with hiring moratoria, or where there's already a successful applicant waiting for a formal job offer.

The effort you put into researching an application, IMO, should be a function of the effort required by the applicant to proceed and the respect given to applicants by employers. The effort for a phone interview is very low. The respect is near zero.
> I have a laptop running Linux with core i9 (32threads) CPU, 4090 GPU (16GB VRAM) and 96 GB of RAM.

Is there somewhere I can find a computer like this pre-built?
Makes sense and I do remember that!
Trump likely employs massive numbers of illegal immigrants in his hotel empire. He did nothing substantial about illegal immigration in his first term, he's not going to do anything substantial in his second term. He's all talk.

The way to eliminate illegal immigration is to go after the people who hire them. But Trump isn't going to put rich white people in jail.
Can't rerun the experiment without the deletion that was done so hard to say if it would be worse if she hadn't.

Interesting read. I periodically wipe my socials except here.
We are tolerating China just fine no? Aren't we one of China's biggest trading partners?
> We must balance optimizing for oneself with optimizing for others, including the public good. So how does working for Big Tech thread this needle? This is the question that people who work for Big Tech must ask themselves.

This is a bullshit premise. Many people who worked at Google when I was there (including myself) sincerely believed that Google was good for society.

People sitting on the outside have an incorrect mental model of how people work at companies like this.

A very very small minority work there and think the company is evil. The ones who think that do not last long because it’s insufferable working with people drinking different koolaid. The same thing is true for working for Wall Street, defense contractors, drug companies, and whatever else you can think of.

If it’s a company that defines and leads the space, it’s likely filled with motivated employees that already think the company is doing the right thing.

So there is no ethical quandary of “what is good for me vs what is good for society” because the employee thinks he/she is doing good for society by working there.

> Uber skirted regulations, shrugged off safety issues, and presided over a workplace rife with sexual harassment.” Was it ethical to have worked at Uber under Kalanick?

This is the false dichotomy that doesn’t apply to people who drink the koolaid. If you think Uber has saved thousands of lives via reduced drunk driving and available rides out of bad areas, disrupting/ignoring local regulations is easy to justify. A leader who had sexual harassment issues is completely irrelevant because of “the mission”.

Implying that someone is unethical to be at Uber while that was going on makes as much sense as implying someone is unethical for being a research professor at Harvard when others there have published fraudulent papers at the same time.
They were so darn expensive and motherboard specific they seemed like the future and completely impractical at the same time.
Fun fact N64 was Rambus, the memory pack that wasn’t an expansion pack (it was called a jump or jumper pal) was a terminator that had to be present or the N64 wouldn’t boot.

https://n64brew.dev/wiki/Expansion_Pak
I have the 2015 version. It still works better than ever on modern PCs.
https://visualizingpalestine.org/visual/shrinking-palestine/

Doesn't include the parts of Syria that Israel just expropriated.

Are you sure you aren't parroting Zionist tropes?

That sea phrase ...

Likud Party Platform https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/original-party-platform...

> between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjhXXspw7pw
> Three Mile Island and then Chernobyl kinda killed that dream

With very good reason.

Nuclear power leaves a 200,000 year head ache.

Climate change is a mild problem in comparison, it will correct itself in centuries (taking most of civilisation with it, but mēh!)
That probably depends on what you do with your computer.

If you regularly clone git repos and run code you didn’t write or run unsigned apps from untrusted developers, it’s probably a good idea to scrutinize the connections that code is making.
In terms of the nostalgia factor, I could smell my brand new Commodore 64 when looking at this, so from that point of view it's a win.
It’s simply not credible to expect tens of thousands of random people to be scrupulous 100% of the time.

Centralized services try to solve the issue by simply never giving out such authority outside of a small handpicked group. (And even then a reddit admin was caught red handed doing it a while back)

Edit: And so the trust that takes years to build up can be lost in a few seconds of bad decisions…
Mounce's Basics of Biblical Greek and the workbook were good enough that I stopped watching the lectures. The workbook is excellent. Can't recommend it enough.
I maintain that “2 ‘r’s” is a semi-valid answer. If a human is writing, pauses and looks up to ask that question they almost certainly want to hear “2”.
Ok sure but when I say Canada I am talking about the entire country. I support a cheap, fast line connecting Toronto with its populated neighboring cities. And sure, something between Vancouver and Portland would be fine. But it is not feasible to, for example, connect Vancouver and Toronto with rail. In Europe, you can take rail from London to Athens. I want that in Canada but you have to go through vast amounts of nothingness to do so. Population IS the reason for rail failing here.
I'm really enjoying Mastodon. It's a bit like Usenet back in 1994 - only us geeks there.

To be honest, I'm kinda glad that the Twitterati aren't there; I did not enjoy Twitter when it was in its prime.
No worries.

I was about to edit mine to clarify that I am not judging you nor your comments, instead simply providing my perspective in the hope it helps.
I would agree with that if I didn't mind handing over my prompts/data to big tech companies.

But I do.
A single article does not in any way refute the quote in my comment, and could not. Even 10 or 20 such articles could not refute. It would take a study of the entire media environment of the time.
> it's generally less educated people thinking that the economy or whatever would be better

You should be very careful with these kinds of sentiments. Openly contemptuous elitism is how we ended up with Trump in US.
Each year, between Christmas and New Years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress
Television repair, CB radio, phone phreaking, etc etc as well
> Most of the storage challenges are political, rather than engineering.

That is a strange statement.

There is no place in the world geologically stable for the required period (we have no way to know)

We have no way to communicate with people about the dangers for over 100_000 years.

Those are technical problems.

The political impetus is to get future generations to pay for our current consumption
Archibald Low's ‘ruthlessly imaginative’ 1925 predictions come true, mostly
Is there any money in collecting and recycling disposable vapes?
An interesting chaser to this is the centrality of stents in discussions of provider-side abuses in the US health care system: I'm sure stents save a lot of lives, but there's broad agreement that they're also significantly overprescribed. Ironically, one of the things the US health care system does with extraordinary effectiveness --- making it quicker and more efficient to deliver services, in this case by placing stents in outpatient procedures --- also makes it easy for them to drive costs.

None of this has anything to do with Malik's own story! I'm glad for his experience with our system, one I'm increasingly mindful of as I'm just a decade or so behind him.

https://lowninstitute.org/the-prevalence-and-harm-of-unneces...
Sounds like you had a bad experience. I moved to Lithuania nearly a decade ago, and my experience was just like moving to another city in my country. Opening a bank account took around an hour, they just needed my passport.

After a year I realised I should have applied for a temporary residence permit (if you have FoM you are allowed to live as a resisent for 6 months without it), which took a few weeks to get.

This year I finally changed my drivers license over, as I couldn't get a parking permit without a local license. I've owned 2 vehicles with local plates before that. Took a few days to do that.

I did the same to Ireland a decade before, and my experience there was pretty much the same.
Love hydraulics and they’re so much better with electro-mechanical controls now :)
What killed nuclear in the US wasn't Chernobyl or TMI. It was PURPA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Utility_Regulatory_Poli...

This flooded the power markets in the US with new, non-utility sources, while at the same time it helped reduce growth in demand by encouraging efficiency. Together, these squeezed out any prospect for starting new nuclear construction projects.
Yes you can buy something like this prebuilt. Lenovo workstations for example. Quite expensive new, but there are many second hands on eBay
For reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Yitzhak_Rabin
There's no "why" to what Trump has been saying about Greenland, Panama and Canada. At least not in terms of anything that he seriously believes the US needs to actually do.

It's just another part of his shlock-and-awe campaign, like all these appointments of obviously unqualifed people to important positions. He does stuff like this to get people riled up, and ready to believe he's capable of anything. And always talking about him, non-stop.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
Thank god for that... I love Mastodon, but the moment it experiences an Eternal September, I will be done once and for all with social media.

At this point I consider the technical/usability hurdles of it a feature that filters out people that are not my kind of people...
The case against gameplay loops
30 hours and I still haven't left the province of Ontario (Canada).
Comparing retail prices is pointless when replying to a comment referring the heavy industry.
All that is saying is that back then the Democrats engaged in lawfare. Nothing new.
Sometimes half a pill comes in a capsule!
OP > …real work on Climate Change would have begun in 1981…

I don’t think that’s incorrect even if you ascribe all of the era’s environmental decision making to energy scarcity.

Carter still set a goal of 20% renewable energy by 2020, and that still would have made a significant impact.

It seems obvious to me that environmental policy was in some part driven by concern for the environment itself, but that doesn’t change the simple statement that things would have been better if we’d followed it.
> I know that Charles Proxy can miss stuff.

It would miss anything not using macOS high-level HTTP or socket APIs, right?

If you're concerned about apps surreptitiously phoning home, I wouldn't count on them using those, or otherwise respecting the system proxy settings.
This is honestly getting tiring. Not only is the billeting tone pointless, neither are those reports conclusive or evidence on their own. I formed my opinion over the years of the diseases that are being caused by a lot of people using these devices. Now these could be by overuse, other issues, bad mixtures, shoddy made devices, idk the list can continue. Maybe vaping is overpowered if controlled correctly. Could be. Just don't state it as a fact, when, in fact, it is not known.
> throw you off for using the domain to email things they disagree with

Right, you can get kicked off for your emails.

But nobody is going to ban you based on which domains you do or do not put on your block list.
No backup needed! Let the internet crash, we might learn something about humanity.
Don’t worry it’ll be back up before long.
Ah, the circle of life for VC-funded social media... Let third party devs write cool apps, copy the features that stick, then pull their rug. Then proceed to squeeze ad revenue in a death spiral as the MAU gently falls off.
Pssh, can you stop with your 19th/20th century language propaganda bullshit: They are vagabond. We've used the term for centuries[1]. /s

Interestingly, the word "vagabond" is getting a rebound as "homeless" has become really unpopular lately, and as of 2022, "vagabond" saw more usage than "unhoused", which one might not have guessed given the bellyaching over other people's language.

1. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=vagabond%2Chom...
Have you seen what Mariupol looked like right after it was taken? Or what Bakhmut looks like today?

The reason why Russia doesn't do this to Ukraine as a whole is because it is fighting this war with the ultimate goal of occupying and annexing Ukraine, so why would it destroy valuable resources like infrastructure and people needed to maintain it unless it serves some other goal? OTOH when it does serve some other goal (e.g. actually advancing the frontline), they have zero qualms about doing the same exact thing Israel does. I mean, Russia doesn't care all that much about lives of its own soldiers, given the kinds of tactics routinely used.

How Europe would be treated would similarly depend on what the goals of the war from Russian perspective would be.
I’m surprised to see no mention of AnythingLLM (https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm). I use it with an Anthropic API key, but am giving thought to extending it with local LLM.
It’s a great app: good file management for RAG, agents with web search, cross platform desktop client, but can also easily be run as a server using docker compose.

Nb: if you’re still paying $20/mo for a feature-poor chat experience that’s locked to a single provider, you should consider using any of the many wonderful chat clients that take a variety of API keys instead. You might find that your LLM utilization doesn’t quite fit a flat rate model, and that the feature set of the third-party client is comparable (or surpasses) that of the LLM provider’s.

edit: included repo link; note on API keys as alternative to subscription
Sundar Pichai a gem? What? Are we using the same Google?
I see! So the luck was in happening to be paying attention to the right things, and happening to bet on them even though other equally smart people (like David Shaw) decided not to, given the same information? Thank you for explaining.
Because everybody besides the US regulates prices.
It is just that. (of course in practice you also need to get the LSP to exist on your system somewhere in the first place and have a command that runs it (rather annoying for java programs), but other than that it's literally just a program with JSON I/O)
Yes, and Germany and France have also been open that the goal was always (and still is) political union. For a lot of other EU countries that is not the goal. So there has always been an "inner core". Making that official is not going to be a huge jump, or particularly destabilising.
My college chemistry professor said never to ingest anything made in a lab. Thus far, I have followed this rule and I have been fine, not that I have been around any chemistry labs since college.

A chemist broke this rule on YouTube by turning styrofoam into cinnamon candy that he ate himself, but he went through an extreme amount of effort to make it safe:

https://youtu.be/zMaTrgUKC1w
I’ve spent 20+ years in tech in roles ranging from IT to engineering at west coast and midwest companies and this thread is the first time I’ve heard “nuke and pave”.

At the places I’ve been, systems got “wiped” or “re-imaged” most commonly. I suspect this terminology is hyper local.
>> What alternative to an electoral process do you have in mind? And please be specific so that I may understand.

> more than one major political party would be a good start so that your “democracy” is more little more than “it is 2am at a bar and there are two of the ugliest people to ever roam the Earth but you are drunk and you are taking one of them home with ya…” :)

:-D

That's a funny, and sadly appropriate, metaphor.

Getting rid of "first past the post"[0] and the "Citizen United" SCOTUS decision[1] are key to achieve this IMHO. Both will be incredibly difficult to remediate as they combine to maximize the inertia of the status quo.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
https://archive.is/pvW9N
Reusable vapes are beyond commonplace in the US and there's still a huge problem with disposables.

For kids, they're expensive to purchase, expensive to replace when mom/dad take it away, and much harder to conceal from teachers and parents. It's harder to swap flavors and such, too.

Really, the issue is that public officials and police don't care. It took 3-4 years for NYC to start doing something about the thousands of illegal smoke shops.
With an assault of notifications while you are busy, being able to determine without lifting your phone whether the alert is something mundane versus what you've been waiting for, is useful. If I'm working outside, removing gloves to check the phone each time it vibrates becomes endlessly disruptive, but I want the phone with me in case family calls, someone's delivering something, there's an urgent work issue, etc.
Stay SaaSy 2024: A SaaSy Year in Review
I love that people are finally comfortable adding the word "artificial" into their analysis of the bible. About time. Because make no mistake, LLMs are at best artificial intelligence. More likely, they are very good regurgitating machines, telling us what we have been telling ourselves in an even better form thus goading us along in our fallacies.
Couldn't agree more. Greece is a great example of what happens to a country when they have a sovereign debt crisis and no control over the value of their currency.

The ability to control your overnight bank rates, and your monetary supply is important. I don't think the convenience of easy travel or easy(ier) trading of goods outweighs it at all.
Asdf soon to release go rewrite
To sell the illusion of not using copyrighted works they make it publicly aware that they license some works.
It's slightly odd to say 'wow, epoll can wait on any type of kernel handle, like timerfd and signalfd!' given those *fd interfaces were added just for select/poll/epoll. Strikes me as remarkably ugly design...
(1977)

Page title: Voyager Spacecraft Statement by the President
I feel like macOS has been going the direction of iOS, increasingly locking things down and pushing to a walled garden world. What’s the chance that the next major update or two make changes that prevent utilities from having the access they need to provide these power user capabilities?
oh but there are … and plenty of them … behind closed doors they are talking “we gonna milk this MFer next 4 years and will be here another 25-30 when he’s retired in FL (or dead)” (I know this almost first-hand…)

they are there and they always run the show - all else as always just smoke&mirrors
Good catch to both.
Gell-Mann amnesia is powerful. Hope you extrapolate from that experience!

At a technical level, they don't know because LLMs "think" (I'd really call it something more like "quickly associate" for any pre-o1 model and maybe beyond) in tokens, not letters, so unless their training data contains a representation of each token split into its constituent letters, they are literally incapable of "looking at a word". (I wouldn't be surprised if they'd fare better looking at a screenshot of the word!)
> Here in Oz the banning of disposable nicotine vapes has led to an increase in organised crime activity.

That organized crime already existed and this is just one of a dozen or so income streams for them. Hard drugs, human trafficking, and money laundering are probably orders of magnitude more profitable.

Also: people get murdered all the time, despite it being illegal. Clearly the law isn't working, so let's make murder legal! /s

Oh, and legalizing weed didn't do jack shit about dealers selling weed; the dealers are much cheaper, provide better service, and often better product (well, except the illicit stuff is likely to have much higher pesticide content.)
Likely to make it simple for retailers to accept euro. Making it exactly two means the retailers would lose money on the exchange spread. Another example is with 1 hkd = 0.97 mop.
Thank you Sherlock for this invaluable suggestion.

Quite often this is simply not possible.

Next time I read "according to our anonymous sources in the FBI", I'll make sure I reach out to them for verification.
~23K civilian casualties there after 3 years of war, about half of them attributable to Ukrainian strikes.

What is your basis for this belief?
He calls investing in OpenAI "wishful thinking" and a "Ponzi scheme", and as I read it, he's also criticizing the thing you're criticizing, though somewhat less harshly. He just seems to be under the mistaken impression that Mosaic Communications Corporation was a licensee of Mosaic like Spry was, which, well, you can see how that misunderstanding could have arisen.
Today: Claude

Let me count carefully: s-t-[r]-a-w-b-e-[r]-[r]-y

There are 3 Rs in "strawberry".
Socialized medicine with extra steps and 500 middlemen all skimming off the top
Right, right. Meanwhile, your worldview is both rational and objective; not influenced by politics of any sort. Very convenient!
If capitalism means manipulating people to make choices that are against their own best interests or eliminating other choices that have better utility, then I’m on board.

But really, capitalism properly managed shouldn’t be about figuring how to profit by making things worse, it should be about profiting by solving problems.

When a business profits by creating problems rather than solving them, it is a parasite on society. Such businesses are effectively criminal enterprises, and should not be allowed to exist.